Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Government Buildings, Ships,

In the left foreground is the J.A. Springer Coal Company Building and equipment, the tower of the old Brownstone Post Office can be seen above the Southern Building. Many other downtown businesses can also be be seen. Several boats are docked along...

Market St, looking West, near 8th St. The plaza has decorative planters with flowers and power lines. A horse and buggy is parked on the right side of the 2 lane road. Steeples of First Baptist Church and St. Paul's Lutheran Church can been seen in...

Original appearance of Lumina Ballroom. Visitors can be seen on both of the wide outside staircases. An American flag is flying from a tower. A large rowboat is sitting on the sand. Power lines can be seen in the background.

At the center on the river is the fire boat station. At right is The Thelma, one of the paddlewheel steamers which plied the river as far as Fayetteville. In the distance (from left) are the Murchison Building, the side of the Cape Fear Hotel and a...

Walker family, Architects, Builders, Philanthropists, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, portraiture

This portrait of James Walker can be found hanging on a wall at UNC-Wilmington. James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason, then later moved to...

Waterfront view of the Quarantine Office, built in 1905, and located at the foot of Atlantic Ave. (surrounded by wooden fencing). The middle house in the background is the Dr. Lorenzo Frink House at 313 Bay Street, built about 1890. The Stuart...

Edward Kidder (1805-1885) was born in Massachusetts and came to Wilmington ca. 1826. He became a prosperous lumber merchant and later owned the Clarendon Water Works. He married Ann Potter (1811-1872) of Connecticut and in the early 1840s, they...

Helen Lovering's shadow can be seen taking the photograph of this unknown woman in front of a treet at Orton Plantation. Although born in Hawthorne, New Jersey, Helen had strong family ties to Wilmington and lived there for most of her adult...

"Fleging Brunswick technical College now has a temporary home and a sign at Supply. The temporary home, the school's first, is the former county extension office building. Joseph Bailey Carter, newly named "charter" president of the college,...

The collection is comprised of photocopies of the City Council Minutes of the City of Wilmington, North Carolina from 1988 to 2011. The library continues to receive the monthly city council minutes which can be viewed in the Law Library section of...

Ocean front view of Lumina Ballroom showing the additions of the pillars and veranda. People are congregating at the water's edge, on the veranda and under the building. Beach-goers have an array of outfits on, bathing suits, casual and Sunday...

Minnie Evans possibly at the gatehouse at Airlie Gardens Estate.
Minnie Eva Jones (1892-1987) was born in the Long Creek Community of Pender County, NC. In 1908, she married Julius Evans, who worked for the Pembroke Jones family. Minnie also...

The collection can be divided into two main parts, family and business matters. The business folders contain all kinds of paperwork relating to business, such as bankbooks, ledgers, receipts, bills, advertisements, mortgages, bills of sale,...

New Hanover High School and Trinity Methodist Church are in the background. The back and side of Covenant Presbyterian Church can be seen on the right. Later, Covenant merged with St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church to form St. Andrews-Covenant...

Photograph shows an aerial view of Dawson Street between 16th and 17th Streets in Wilmington, N.C. Can identify a Dairy Queen, a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Wachovia Bank. There are other businesses as well.

Page 1 of letter from Thomas Owen to sister Margaret Owen Dickson, in which Owen expresses relief that his sister survived the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1862, and asks if there is anything that he or others can do to comfort or assist her. ...